Everything tagged: General

hi there,

i just saw the wonderful pictures of wellington barracks circa 1919, 1949 on your site and i was wondering whether anyone knew the name of the street/road where the main entrance (with the clock tower) is located?  I think this photo depicts the military hospital of the barracks but I may be wrong.

I am researching a novel about HK during the Japanese occupation.  And I am interested in where the Japanese troops were eating and living during this time period.  I am especially interested in where they were located on Hong Kong island. 

You'll need to check with the owner. To find out the owner, first make sure you're on the Gwulo website page for that photo. It'll have "media" in the url, eg: http://gwulo.com/media/15894

Check any notes below the photo to see if it mentions the photo comes from a third-party, eg from one of the University archives. If that's the case you'll need to contact them.

Otherwise you'll need to contact the contributor who added the photo to Gwulo. Look above the photo and you'll see a line of text in a small font like this:

I'll be in London next week. On Tuesday 17th I'm meeting Christine, Jill, Mike, and Patricia for lunch. Please come along if you're free that day - it's nothing formal, just a chance to say hello and meet some other people who are interested in old Hong Kong.

We'll have lunch at the Magic Wok restaurant. It's very close to Surbiton station, which has frequent trains to & from Waterloo.

Hi:

I'm looking for a chocolate which sold in Dodwell Deparment Store back in 60"s - 70"s.  Dark brown steel box which a lot of taxi driver use it for the money box.

I need to get that kind of chocolate for my father who has cancer in canada would like to taste it agin..

Million thanks

The photos of the Taipo Belle helped solve a little mystery for Elizabeth Ride. She explains:

Paul Harrison is running his popular tour again on Sat 14th Jan. Please contact Stan Dyer (M : 9746 9537, standyer23@yahoo.com.hk) to reserve your place.

We meet at 9:30 sharp, right inside the Protestant Cemetery front gate for a 2-hour tour with local historian Paul Harrison, who'll give plenty of background information and interesting anecdotes about the early Europeans buried there. The tour costs $100 p.p., which all goes to Operation Santa Claus, one of Hong Kong's largest charities.

I would like to add a comment, in fact a question, to the thread on "Steamliners to Macau" which is now rather an old forum. I have been trying to find some information about a ferry, probably but not necessarily a Hong Kong-Macau ferry, called "Pao Kee" which was lost at sea in July 1971, and I wonder if any reader knows anything about it. An old friend of mine was mate on board her when she was on a delivery voyage, under tow, from Hong Kong to India to be scrapped. She, and her tug, put into Cam Ranh Bay in Vietnam because of bad weather.

Hi

I'm looking for a print of this photo. From Google, I found that most people found it at Cat Street/Upper Lascar Row/Hollywood Road area where most tourists go for souveniers.

Has anyone seen this picture elsewhere? Since I live in Canada and knows no one in Hong Kong, I'm trying to find someone or store selling it online.

From a blog, it's stated that this print was photographed around 1870-1880 at Queen's Road Central.

Thank you.

The Sek Kong Hash House Harriers (www.skh3.com), of which I am Webmaster, is attempting to find evidence of hashing or running by military personnel from Sek Kong Camp/Borneo Lines since it was opened in 1950. Anyone who can do so, or suggest where we might be able to locate such evidence, will be rewarded with a free run and as much Tsing Tao as they can drink afterwards. OnOn! Guy Shirra @ Gunpowder Plod

Dear all,

1st time posting here! I have found this forum from mainland China (written in simplfied Chinese) has many old photos of HK. It catagorized Drugs and Gambling, Old Army, Cinemas, Trams...and street views from 1910s to 1990s. Hope you can find many new photos that you haven't seen before. Peace.

Desmond